Congressional Intervention in the Administrative Process: Legal and Ethical Considerations

Rosenberg, Morton ; Maskell, Jack H.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Congress;    Congressional committees;    Congressional committee jurisdiction;   

RP-ID  :  RL32113
RP-ID  :  RL32113_2003Sep25

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report briefly examines the currently applicable legal and ethical considerations and standards that mark the limits of interventions by Members of Congress. It reviews the judicial development and application of standards for determining whether congressional pressure or influence will be deemed to have tainted an agency proceeding. It concludes that the courts, in balancing Congress's performance of its constitutional and statutory obligations to oversee the actions of agency officials against the rights of parties before agencies, have shown a decided predilection for protecting the congressional prerogatives.